Kyle King Animator

Aliens: Colonial Marines

2011-06-01T12:43:00.000-07:00

Aliens: Colonial Marines to rip through Xenomorphs in Spring 2012
Finally a trailer has been released for one of the games I have been working on. http://www.joystiq.com/2011/06/01/aliens-colonial-marines-release-date/

With an extended trailer here -

http://174.143.27.200/ Hostname - Father

2010-12-15T21:11:00.002-08:00

2010-04-20T10:07:00.001-07:00

Since i dont have anything new to show, here is a pretty sweet demo reel i found on Vimeo.

Doomshaper Work

2010-02-10T09:55:00.000-08:00

Here is an image from some freelance rigging and skinning that I am working on. Chelsea Edwards modeled the character and I am preparing it to be posed for her Portfolio.
When I finish the skinning, hopefully ill be able to add some cool animations to him and add them to both my blog and website.

Tron Project - Animation Test

2010-02-06T22:00:00.001-08:00

Doom Hell Knight

2010-02-06T20:50:00.001-08:00

New animation for the website and Blog. I havent updated my blog with an image of my new website design yet, so here is that as well.

In this video:
2 Walk cycles and 1 Animation where the creature breaks through a wall.
All animation is 100% Hand keyed. No physics

Site: www.kinganimations.com

CGTalk Feature

2009-11-10T10:15:00.001-08:00

I was featured on the front page of CGTalk today and received 13,000 views on my thread! And was also listed in the CGTalk Email Newsletter. :) My web host was not happy about how much bandwidth i was using. So here are two links that will always be available.

Borderlands Show Reel from kyle king on Vimeo.

Youtube link - ShowReel

Borderlands ships!

2009-10-21T09:22:00.000-07:00

Borderlands has shipped!! And its #2 on amazon!!! Link

I am just waiting approval to post my animation work from it and some of the downloadable content. So new content should be up shortly. As for that website i posted about last time... Its on the back burner.

Website going up soon

2009-05-28T23:45:00.000-07:00

Some progress on the new website.

Borderlands Update - Screens

2009-05-27T23:10:00.000-07:00

So Gearbox has finally released some photos of the new concept art style for Borderlands. I was very happy to find that a couple of the screen shots that they decided to use in the PC Gamer spread, had some images of my animations. The game is shaping up really well and I cant wait to play the finished product. Hope everyone enjoys the new screen shots.

About the image - I was fortunate to work on all the animations for this creature.

2008 Render Test

2009-04-13T21:32:00.000-07:00

Here is a trial render of how i want the reel to look like. Not sure the contrast is where i want it yet, but you can see where the style is headed in this video.

Untitled from kyle king on Vimeo.

Demo reel progress: Rough

2009-03-19T19:02:00.001-07:00

Brothers in Arms: HH 2008 Rough Reel from kyle king on Vimeo.

This is my rough animation reel for 2008. Most of the animations are me in a mo-cap suit; mo-cap then cleaned up by me, with key frame animation added on top. The finished reel will have a break-down of what was done in each shot.

This rough reel is a combination of some animations I did while working on Brothers In Arms: Hells Highway (from Jan '07 to Sept '07).
The reason for this reel, was to get a feel for where i wanted to place each animation in the time line for the Final Reel.

Thanks 2008

2008-12-29T22:02:00.000-08:00

2007 Grad Show-Reel
Linked In Profile

As the year ends i am going to start a new tradition. In most industry's it is common to update your "Resume", so i have decided to annually update my portfolio (demo reel). I don't think it will be 100% complete before the 1st of '09, but it will be on its way. This will most likely be the last post of the year so i figured I would end it on a good note. A nice shot of my home work station and my helpers.

Borderlands

2008-12-27T00:40:00.000-08:00

Since Brothers In Arms shipped I have been working on Borderlands. I wont be able to feature any of the work in my end of the year reel, but will publish some when possible.

(click image to view development info)

Shipped Title

2008-12-26T15:52:00.000-08:00

So after many months of hard work I have my first shipped title under my belt, Brothers In Arms: Hells Highway shipped in September on the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC. I had a lot of fun and learned so much while working on this title.

(click image to view development info)

PC Controls: Brochures

2008-09-30T22:15:00.000-07:00

Here are two out of about 40 brochure/flyers that i did for the same company, PC Controls. 100% custom grahics and design.

Web Design: PC Controls

2008-09-30T21:59:00.000-07:00

www.pccontrols.net

This website was for PC Controls and is still up and running. I did over 70 pages all with 100% custom images. Most of which i had to take the photos. We decided to keep the orginal layout from their old website so that returning customers knew where everything was located.

Winter 2007 Demo reel

2008-08-22T08:01:00.000-07:00

Winter 2007 Demo Reel from kyle king on Vimeo.

This is my unfinished demo reel from college. Everything contained in this reel was done by me; modeling, animating, textures, lighting. (with exceptions - the hands of the characters were taken from a free online source and the "MAX" character is Copyright © of Peter Starotsin) I would of added post processing to the reel and changed a lot more aspects of it, but ended up landing a job a gearbox right out of school. So this reel was never finished to what it could of been. ANYWAY this is my Winter 07 Graduation Reel.

Hells Highway Screen Shot

2008-08-21T13:26:00.001-07:00

New Blog

2008-08-18T11:58:00.000-07:00

Finally getting all of this set up so I will be posting my reel from graduation soon. And hopefully when Brothers In Arms ships i will be able to post some of my work from it.